Besides, when Sam says that "at least Daniel will still be out there" I always melt into a puddle of teamy goodness goo. :)
Oh me too! I love all the team bonding moments. I just re-watched 'Fallen' and there's that wonderful scene where Sam comes to talk to Amnesiac!Daniel and tells him how wonderful he is in every way, and he's thinking that they must be dating, because everything she is saying to him is so obviously coming from a place of deep love, and then the realization that no, she just loves him *that much* without wanting to see him naked. (Or, as I always think of Sam as a woman with nothing wrong with her eyesight, possibly wanting to see him naked, but only for reference purposes....)
I think with Maybourne, they could either have kept him as a very useful bad guy, but he would have started seeming totally two-dimensional or they could have done what they did, and found another bad guy to replace him, which they did with Colonel Simmons. I slightly regret Maybourne turning into the quite lovable guy he did later, because they lost such a great villain in the process, but it was an interesting transition. Kinsey was always very consistent, which I did like about him. He had the same problems with the Stargate Program all the way through and was always given good points to make and was allowed to make a convincing argument each time - even though we don't want his views to prevail.
(Speaking of Ripples - you have seen my rec for that, right? And for Reflection? And Salt of the Earth? And The Wine of Dionysus? :)
I hadn't, no. Thank you for the links and for writing such lovely reviews. I'm a bit overwhelmed, really, you say such wonderful things. Thank you so much. I'm especially glad that you mention 'Salt of the Earth' being a Sam-focused fic, because I don't know how obvious that is, but it's how I think of it and what my impetus was for writing it. I just found everything she went through with no real comfort given to her on the show - not even a conversation with anyone else about how upsetting it was to keep losing these men for whom she obviously did have feelings - quite difficult to watch, and so I needed to write her getting closure for me. (I do still wish there had been some acknowledgement on the show though. That scene where Sam is lying on the ramp in '2001' and nobody goes to her is, I think, my all time lowpoint with the show, although I do love the rest of the episode.)
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Oh me too! I love all the team bonding moments. I just re-watched 'Fallen' and there's that wonderful scene where Sam comes to talk to Amnesiac!Daniel and tells him how wonderful he is in every way, and he's thinking that they must be dating, because everything she is saying to him is so obviously coming from a place of deep love, and then the realization that no, she just loves him *that much* without wanting to see him naked. (Or, as I always think of Sam as a woman with nothing wrong with her eyesight, possibly wanting to see him naked, but only for reference purposes....)
I think with Maybourne, they could either have kept him as a very useful bad guy, but he would have started seeming totally two-dimensional or they could have done what they did, and found another bad guy to replace him, which they did with Colonel Simmons. I slightly regret Maybourne turning into the quite lovable guy he did later, because they lost such a great villain in the process, but it was an interesting transition. Kinsey was always very consistent, which I did like about him. He had the same problems with the Stargate Program all the way through and was always given good points to make and was allowed to make a convincing argument each time - even though we don't want his views to prevail.
(Speaking of Ripples - you have seen my rec for that, right? And for Reflection? And Salt of the Earth? And The Wine of Dionysus? :)
I hadn't, no. Thank you for the links and for writing such lovely reviews. I'm a bit overwhelmed, really, you say such wonderful things. Thank you so much. I'm especially glad that you mention 'Salt of the Earth' being a Sam-focused fic, because I don't know how obvious that is, but it's how I think of it and what my impetus was for writing it. I just found everything she went through with no real comfort given to her on the show - not even a conversation with anyone else about how upsetting it was to keep losing these men for whom she obviously did have feelings - quite difficult to watch, and so I needed to write her getting closure for me. (I do still wish there had been some acknowledgement on the show though. That scene where Sam is lying on the ramp in '2001' and nobody goes to her is, I think, my all time lowpoint with the show, although I do love the rest of the episode.)